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skyripper said:
The idea that carrying a knife will protect you against thugs is ridiculous. If anything you're more likely to pull the damn thing, end up in a struggle, and get stuck with it because you'll have been surprised by the attack, while the thug was already in the right mindset for a confrontation.
That idea will just lead to more people bleeding on the streets.
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Tell that to the millions of Americans who carry guns to protect themselves from guns. It's how things escilate and it's why they need to get it under control.
 
Nasher said:
Tell that to the millions of Americans who carry guns to protect themselves from guns. It's how things escilate and it's why they need to get it under control.
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Surely that's supporting my point, that carrying a weapon to dissuade violence only leads to escalating levels of violence.
The parents of dead teenagers aren't sitting there at the funeral saying "If only, they'd been carrying a knife too".
 
Nasher said:
Tell that to the millions of Americans who carry guns to protect themselves from guns. It's how things escilate and it's why they need to get it under control.
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I'm not sure that's supportable. Gun ownership and gun violence have not risen in concert and in fact have gone in opposite directions on occasion. The Chicago city council instigated further gun controls and the result has not been a fall in gun violence but a rise. Attributed by many to the fact that criminals have a lower expectation of armed resistance. Last month an armed citizen defended their church from a mass shooter with their legally owned firearm. Gun violence is on the rise in London but guns haven't been legalised there and law-abiding Londoners do not have access to guns (with rare and non-relevant exceptions). So that can't be attributed to an escalation caused by legal gun ownership.
 
skyripper said:
The parents of dead teenagers aren't sitting there at the funeral saying "If only, they'd been carrying a knife too".
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How do you know? I know someone who was stabbed (not fatally). A pretty big guy, too. He wasn't armed. If he'd been able to pull out a weapon himself, they might not have attacked him. If a parent thinks that their child being armed might have saved their life then that's certainly what they'd think.
 
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Don't worry, you're all safe. I used to teach people to fly in the North London area and I assure you none of them can navigate with sufficient accuracy to hit London as a city, far less a specific building.
 
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